The Least Preacher — Janice Daugharty

"There is a lot of red claw and long nights in every line Janice Daugharty writes." Pat Conroy

Duncan finds his lost faith while hiking to various country churches with his young nephew, who he passes off as the world's littlest preacher. Duncan used to be a preacher himself, his daddy was too, but as Duncan tells the boy, "You gotta have a hook, or either be called." Duncan wasn't called and besides, he couldn't leave the women alone.